It is indeed
a scary moment when Trade Unionists have something to smile
about. But they could all easily play the Cheshire Cat if
Alice in Wonderland were to hold auditions right now. The
Employment Relations Bill has been let loose onto society,
and it's ...

What on earth is going
on with this Government? Yesterday Dr Michael Cullen warned
business to stop protesting against its policies and then
Pete Hodgson says Kit Richards' consultancy to Timberlands
is untenable, despite Government taking back Peter Doone
...

Derek Quigley has told the
Government what the Opposition has said all along - that
cancellation of the F-16 contract would be a dramatic
departure for New Zealand's defence policy with far-reaching
implications, Opposition Leader Jenny Shipley said
...

GOOD DAY
MEDIAPHILES ... memo to the Employers Federation, the
Business Roundtable and various other interests: We will
soon have industrial relations laws that conform to basic
international standards. Get over it, stop whining and get
on with it.

It's been inevitable ever since
May 15th, 1991, when the Employment Contracts Act was
passed. The labour movement reeled at the attack on its
power. Workers suffered abusive contracts, expulsion of
their unions from workplaces, attacks on wages and
...

Green MP Sue Kedgley
tomorrow hosts a visit from two American journalists at the
centre of an international scandal involving Fox TV,
Monsanto and the use of a genetically engineered bovine
growth hormone (rBGH).

Cabinet has received the
Hon Derek Quigley’s independent report on the F-16 lease
agreement. We are grateful to Mr Quigley for his very
thorough report which works its way through the question of
the F-16 arrangement and sets it in the broader context
...

Today is
St Patrick's Day commemorating the Saint who rid the fair
Isle of Eire of its snakes. This autobiographical confession
was written by Patrick himself, in Latin, around the year
450. It offers a unique record of life in the British Isles
...

One of the students
arrested during Thursday’s protest, an Auckland University
commerce student Brian Biggs, took the opportunity to tell
his story via a megaphone to the crowd of students
protesting outside the central police station yesterday.

The following pictures
- supplied to Scoop anonymously - show actress Liv Tyler in
action during the shooting of some scenes for the Lord Of
The Rings trilogy. The pictures were taken in the South
Island near Wanaka.

The German Green Party, almost
in free-fall at the polls, is being warned to start acting
like a governing party in a modern democracy, more than the
anarchic, pacifist, anti-nuclear militants they were when
the party was founded. John Howard reports.

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